克里斯托弗·马洛，英国诗人，剧作家。1564年2月出生于坎特伯雷一贫穷鞋匠之家，与莎士比亚同年出生。Christopher Marlowe was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. H...
a great friendshipThomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776.Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further Amer...
Washington was the first president of the U.S. He was very clever even when he was still a 12-year-old-boy.Once a thief stole some money from Uncle Po...
Franklin's life is full of charming stories which all young men should know -- how he sold books in Boston, and became the guest of kings in Europ...
Demades the orator was once speaking in the assembly at Athens; but the people were very inattentive to what he was saying, so he stopped and said, &q...
Once a neighbor stole one of Washington's horse. Washington horse back. But the neighbor refused to give the horse back. He said that it was his h...
"My wife got sick. She was constantly nervous because of problems at work, personal life, her failures and problems with children.She has lost 30...
One day, the French famous writer Tristan Bernard went to a restaurant for dinner. But he was not very satisfied with the food."Bring the manager...
Author James Thurber depended on words for entertainment.He told me once about a trick he played on a nurse during one of his hospital stays. He asked...
Andersen(1805-1875) live very simply. He often wore an old hat when he went out.Once someone in the street laughed at him, "What's that on yo...